Girardi Keese said Tuesday that it will appeal to the Third Circuit to fight a May order requiring GlaxoSmithKline to hold back 7 percent of the gross recovery from all Girardi cases in the sprawling Avandia product liability multidistrict litigation.

A Pennsylvania district judge dismissed 115 out of 117 cases that GlaxoSmithKline LLC argued were outside the statute of limitations in the multidistrict litigation over injuries caused by diabetes drug Avandia, ruling Friday that the cases were clearly untimely.

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied GlaxoSmithKline PLC's bid to partially dismiss false advertising claims brought by Santa Clara County, Calif., over GSK's diabetes medication Avandia, rejecting its argument that the claims must be based on false advertising displayed within the county.

Plaintiffs' attorneys on Thursday filed a plan in Pennsylvania federal court to split $143 million to resolve a fee dispute in what could be a $2.3 billion settlement in a massive multidistrict litigation over GlaxoSmithKline PLC's alleged failure to warn consumers about health risks related to its diabetes drug Avandia.

A group of plaintiffs urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday to endorse the transfer of their suits claiming the GlaxoSmithKline PLC diabetes drug Avandia caused heart attacks from multidistrict litigation to the courts where they were filed, arguing the MDL had run its course.

A group of 239 plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation for heart disease claims against GlaxoSmithKline PLC over diabetes drug Avandia asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to disburse the remaining funds from their settlement agreement, saying the pharma giant refuses to release the money.

A federal judge on Wednesday sent two cases back to state court from a multidistrict litigation against GlaxoSmithKline PLC for alleged Medicaid fraud related to its diabetes drug Avandia, saying there weren't enough significant federal issues to justify keeping the cases in federal court.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC has settled a majority of state cases and multidistrict litigation cases over its alleged failure to warn consumers about health risks related to diabetes drug Avandia, which has been linked to increased occurrences of heart attack and stroke, the company said Tuesday.